Dead and alive project

[biostud]

I just heard a podcast with a danish photographer who travels around the world and document different burial rituals. Quite fascinating photos and stories.

Dead And Alive Project

Death Rituals Around The World

deadandaliveproject.com

 

[Captante]

Sorry all you "big thinkers" out there but the entire idea of "Schrödinger's cat" is just dumb and a perfect example of what happens when people who are VERY impressed with themselves have too much free time on their hands.

This sort of "thinking" is what Frank Zappa was talking about when he made fun of self-appointed "intellectuals" in universities.

 

[nakedfrog]

Sorry all you "big thinkers" out there but the entire idea of "Schrödinger's cat" is just dumb and a perfect example of what happens when people who are VERY impressed with themselves have too much free time on their hands.

How much do you know about Schrodinger's cat beyond pop culture references?

Schrödinger wrote:[1][8]

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

It's just a thought experiment regarding the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, not meant to be taken literally. As you can maybe tell, Schrodinger wasn't fond of it.

 

[IronWing]

I just heard a podcast with a danish photographer who travels around the world and document different burial rituals. Quite fascinating photos and stories.

Dead And Alive Project

Death Rituals Around The World

deadandaliveproject.com

Interesting all the ways people have come up with the mark a death. Our brains are really weird places. I find the death practices (embalming) of my own culture to be revolting. Some of the stuff other folks have come up with are pretty cool.

 

[Captante]

Schrödinger himself was an amazing and highly intelligent man.

The moron's who take his ideas out of context and proceed to "run with them" as literal fact are anything but.

Really intelligent people think things through on their own.

 

[nakedfrog]

Interesting all the ways people have come up with the mark a death. Our brains are really weird places. I find the death practices (embalming) of my own culture to be revolting. Some of the stuff other folks have come up with are pretty cool.

I thought Tibetan sky burial was neat when I found out about it.
I'll be happy to be turned into compost and spread among the plants.

 

[dank69]

I thought Tibetan sky burial was neat when I found out about it.
I'll be happy to be turned into compost and spread among the plants.

I want to be cremated and put into an hourglass so I can still partake in family game night.

 

[Charmonium]

Anyone seen my cat?

 

[Captante]

Anyone seen my cat?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Or?

And?


Wife says Wilkes County pastor she was told was dead, is still alive as of Thursday

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The wife of a Wilkes County pastor says she was told he was dead on Saturday. Now she's been told he is alive as of Thursday.




Little Girl Found Alive Inside Coffin At Funeral Is Declared Dead At Hospital Again

International Business Times|9 days ago

A little girl in Mexico was pronounced dead twice in two days after doctors first erroneously presumed she was dead. Family members attending the girl's funeral realized she was still alive and took her to the hospital, where she was eventually declared ...


Which is right?
And which is an illusion?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Perhaps we're all dead now and when we 'die' we're actually born somewhere else.

Heaven? Hell?

Perhaps 'Earth' is death. Only one letter different after all.

 

[Kaido]

Don't waste no fancy coffin on my bones:

 

[Kaido]

My death plan is:

1. Post-death, have a scheduled party with all of my favorite foods. I remember back in health class in grade school, we watched a video of a guy who got AIDS & knew he wasn't long for this world, so for when he passed, he setup a part with all of his favorite foods & then setup dozens of TV's with videos on repeat of him talking about his favorite memories with his family & friends...going sailing & graduating school & whatnot. It was really very brilliant!

2. Donate my body for spare parts & to science

3. Cremate the leftovers & launch into space:

Celestis: Memorial Spaceflights – Send Ashes Into Space

Celestis: Memorial Spaceflights makes the dream of spaceflight a reality by launching a symbolic portion of cremated remains into near-space and even beyond.

www.celestis.com

I also like the "living urn" idea, where you plant yourself into a tree:

Urns for Ashes | Tree Burial & Cremation Urns

The Living Urn is a leading biodegradable urn for ashes and tree burial system that helps ensure your loved one has beautiful lasting memory after they pass.

www.thelivingurn.com

 

[Kaido]

 

[Kaido]

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the number of things going on in this picture:

1. Mummified fam, not creep at all in-person or in-concept
2. Smoking (isn't that a fire risk on dry skin??)
3. Living dude wearing a mask in case he catches COVID or inhales second-hand smoke

 

[biostud]

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the number of things going on in this picture:

1. Mummified fam, not creep at all in-person or in-concept
2. Smoking (isn't that a fire risk on dry skin??)
3. Living dude wearing a mask in case he catches COVID or inhales second-hand smoke

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Maybe it is just a good idea to wear a face mask if you dig up old bodies.

I don't think they are super dry, as it is not mummies kept in a desert, but in a tropical forest. I wonder if they smell.

 

[Kaido]

Maybe it is just a good idea to wear a face mask if you dig up old bodies.

I don't think they are super dry, as it is not mummies kept in a desert, but in a tropical forest. I wonder if they smell.

tbh that picture is probably the most metal thing I've ever seen lol

 

[Captante]

tbh that picture is probably the most metal thing I've ever seen lol

Yeah I'm thinking that mask is to avoid inhaling any of "Uncle Fred"!

 

[biostud]

tbh that picture is probably the most metal thing I've ever seen lol

Weekend at Bernie - the reunion

 

[skyking]

My niece was buried here, during the height of the covid pandemic in 2020.
https://www.naturalburialground.org/
Her grave was dug by women, strong and caring. She was interred in a shroud of her choosing and will return to nature quickly.
It is as close to right as I have known, and we could not go because of the pandemic.

 

[VashHT]

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the number of things going on in this picture:

1. Mummified fam, not creep at all in-person or in-concept
2. Smoking (isn't that a fire risk on dry skin??)
3. Living dude wearing a mask in case he catches COVID or inhales second-hand smoke

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I watched a show that talked about this recently, they dig up family members on their birthdays or something and hang out with them. Forgot where it was exactly but I wanna say some remote area in Thailand or Malaysia.

 

[biostud]

I watched a show that talked about this recently, they dig up family members on their birthdays or something and hang out with them. Forgot where it was exactly but I wanna say some remote area in Thailand or Malaysia.

Yeah, this is it. Indonesia.